In this episode, we revisit the extraordinary stand of a Soviet KV-1 tank near the Lithuanian town of Raseiniai in June 1941, during the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa. As German armored ...

Viking has snared a “definitive” history of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan for the invasion of the Soviet Union, from broadcaster and author Jonathan Dimbleby. Daniel Crewe, publishing director ...

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When Russian President Vladimir Putin says it was the Soviet Union, not the Western allies, that defeated Nazism and “saved the entire world,” he can point to this date, June 22, as a pivotal moment ...

The wars of east and west that fused to become the Second World War remade the political map of the world. This is the story of how a world, centuries in the making, was completely remade in a couple ...

Hitler is at the peak of his fanatical career, he has conquered France, and the German people are on his side. But now he's making the biggest mistake of his life. Hitler turns his gaze east and ...